Research Officer or Research Fellow, Multi-species malaria modelling

4 weeks ago


Melbourne, Australia La Trobe University Full time

Full-Time, Fixed-Term opportunity (2 years) Research Only Based at La Trobe University’s Melbourne, Bundoora campus

About the position

The Research Officer or Research Fellow, funded through a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas Grant, will take a leadership role in the development of a novel multi-species malaria computational transmission model and calibration of the model to data from malaria-endemic regions.

At La Trobe, The Research Officer or Research Fellow will be a member of the Department of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences), reporting to Dr Rebecca Chisholm. They will work closely with the Ideas Grant investigator team, led by Dr Angela Devine (Menzies School of Health Research) and Dr David Price (The University of Melbourne), and associated research higher degree student(s) to appropriately incorporate into the model interactions between malaria species, and integrate costs and quality of life data for the economic evaluation of interventions, based on statistical and economic principles.

The appointee will have completed or be in the process of completing a PhD in applied mathematics, computer science, statistics or a related discipline. Ideally, they will have prior knowledge of infectious disease modelling and Bayesian inference methods. They will have a developing research profile, with a demonstrated ability to publish scientific findings in the peer-reviewed literature. 


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